a cat named patches

Nov302012

My sister and I have been chatting about about adding elbow patches to our sweaters as a DIY project. Becuase we are hipster like that. And by hipster I mean we peruse Pinterest and get inspired by all the other ideas.

I saw a few tutorials for felting elbow pads, which looked fantastic, but they seemed to be a bit more involved than what we were going for.

So we bought some stitch witchery, some fabric, and ironed those patches onto our elbows.

We used chalk to mark the center point of the elbow section.

Oh and we made Grits a scarf as well.

I thought a cat patch would be freakin’ adorable on my elbows. It’s a subtle way to “wear” a cat outfit (other than constantly being covered in cat hair), without decking myself out in all things cat.

Although let me take this opportunity to thank all of you who have tweeted and emailed my sister and I about the cute cat sweater and dress at Loft. You know us well, and we are very tempted to buy it.

If this is the first post you are ever reading from me. . .well I’m sure you will think I’m a little cat crazy. It’s true. And if this is your second or fiftieth post you already know that about me.

Anyway, back to the patch.

By the way, is the title of this post making sense to you yet?? #kneeslapper

I love this idea! I am also a #catlady. (Two indoors and, I won’t even mention the number of outdoor kitties that we help feed.) To the girl who mentioned paw print patches…that is also a great idea, I would so do that as well, I also have a French bulldog.

Cute! When I read cat crazy it made me think of a friend of mine with 6 of them, anyway she showed me this video this weekend. You have to watch it! The first link is the song someone made and the 2nd is her actual video bio.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP4NMoJcFd4

This is amazing! I was just looking at a sweater this morning thinking it was probably time to toss it but nope – it is definitely getting cat patches on the elbows. Perfect way to flaunt our crazy cat lady awesome-ness. Bravo!

Let me just paws a moment to tell you… It’s purrrr-fect!! You do way better than ME-owww on that sewing stuff! Fur really and truly! I’m feline pretty jealous right now!!! So keep that sweater away from us or we might just whisk-er away! :))

I love that you’re a crazy cat lady! Sometimes I feel like the minority in the blogging world because everyone seems to have a dog. Anyways, if you have a cat you’ve got to check out http://catversushuman.blogspot.com/ if you haven’t. You will crack up.

I love that little cat cut out. I’ve actually done the felting – it was super easy! It took like 5 minutes. You just have to make sure you don’t buy the cheapest felting needles, get the ones that are like $4 not $3 and you’ll be set! This is from when I did it (hope its okay to post it here):

Kate, thank you for this idea! My favorite shirts & sweaters always get holes in the right elbow because I work at a computer all day and my “mouse elbow” rests on my desk constantly. Now I don’t have to get rid of them!

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